Prosody Blog
The Whole Brain Child Review
Here, guest blogger and parent Beck Lambert shares her review after reading and implementing "The Whole Brained Child" with her family.
Read MoreHow does a team make you a better trauma counsellor?
In this blog entry, Jaclyn Guest, Senior Counsellor with the Child Trauma Service, explores how working with a team helps support trauma work and prevent burnout.
Read MoreNeurobiology of Self-Care
An exploration of self-care from a neurobiological perspective, placing it at the centre of effective practice in work with traumatised children, young people and families.
Read MoreCaring for a Traumatised Teen
Adolescence is a period of significant growth, change and development, and is often an exciting as well as challenging time for young people and their parents or carers. In this blog entry we discuss the insights neurobiology has to support the role of carers of traumatised young people.
Read MoreRevisiting Darcey’s life: a loss never to forget – and questions that still need answering.
Four years have passed, and here Dr Joe Tucci revisits the life and death of little Darcey Freeman who was killed by her father in March 2011. This post asks difficult questions that we all can play a part in answering.
Read MoreShame
Have you ever thought about how children, young people and adults have come to hold onto a platform of Shame? Here, Deb McKenzie shares how in her role as an educator and school counsellor, she often wondered how to best help support a young person who held onto such a negative image of themselves. This concern has taken her on a journey of learning around the topic.
Read MoreInitiating Organisational Change
Guest blogger, Melinda Crole from the YMCA shares insights on how they have gone about initiating organisational change to safeguard children.
Read More9 Plain English Principles of Trauma Informed Care
The trauma literature can be overwhelming. Its basis in neuroscience offers incredible insights into its impact. But it also is challenging to decipher and make relevant to the ways in which children that have experienced abuse and neglect can be effectively supported.
Read MoreRediscovering a conceptual gem for therapeutic out of home care.
Sometimes you come across a journal article that is way before its time - like the one Janise Mitchell discusses in this blog entry! These seven vital components identified as the core of care for children who are removed from their family are as relevant today as they were innovative back then.
Read MoreAddressing unresolved childhood trauma and abuse in adults would save Australian governments billions each year.
Addressing unresolved childhood trauma and abuse in adults would save Australian governments billions each year writes guest blogger Dr Cathy Kezelman President of Adults Surviving Child Abuse.
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